Hatfield and McCoy feud

How did the feud start, and why did it have such an impact throughout America? First and foremost I must say with being related to the McCoy family through marriage on my mother's side is both a thrilling and interesting experience that does come with more history behind it than most can ever imagine. Though it wasn't until two years ago that I learned about this fact, while I was looking through old family pictures and was asking different questions about my heritage my mother led to tell me about my family history which has both negative and positive attributes in it. To learn more about the feud from of both families, and get closer to the truth of the feud than the history channel would ever give, my search landed me unto a blog started by Nancy Hatfield granddaughter of William Devil Anse Hatfield telling about how the entire feud started straight from a personal point of view not just a historic.

History has been leading on that Johnse Hatfield and Roseanna McCoy fell in love at first sight, and were kept apart from their families making out to be another love story by Shakespeare. If you believe that to be the truth then I'm sorry to disappoint you but that actually is far from the truth though to tell the story of the feud it does in fact begin with Johnse and Roseanna. It has been said that Johnse was what they would call a ' lover, not a fighter,' in other words he was a young guy who was more interested in the pursuit of girls, than anything else. He was a huge flirt who had many lady friends, and was not above lying to any girl so he could have his way with her. Not unlike many young men of this era. Roseanna on the other hand was a typical good girl whom had lived an extremely sheltered life, she desperately yearned for love and affection along with a longing to get away from her parents. These aspects about her combined together made it easy for sweet talker Johnse to coerce Roseanna into a sexual relationship through numerous